My dad has a lot of hobbies. Hunting, fishing, running a Christmas tree farm — and flying planes. For the past few years, my dad has been working on renewing his private pilot’s license, getting his instrument ratings, and working toward his commercial license. This means he’s out flying small planes quite a lot.
For one reason or another, I hadn’t gone up with my dad for the first time until this past weekend. I really wanted to take my boyfriend, who is also interested in all things aviation, knowing that my dad would probably let him fly the plane for a bit if we went up (which he did).
It was a clear, hot Ohio summer day — pretty typical for mid-July. The flight was smooth, and we flew over the area where I grew up: rural eastern Ohio. If you have never been to rural eastern Ohio, then let me describe it to you. It is flat. Unbelievably flat, with farms and fields and forests stretching as far as the eye can see. The cities aren’t really cities at all, and I feel like life moves just a little bit slower there. Which is not a bad thing.
Here are a handful of the photos I took while up in the air during our flight.
Rural Ohio
My house!
Lake Milton
Up in the Air video
The Pilots
Wow, cool! Love the video with music! Is this the video you were fighting with iMovie to make? I’ve always wanted to try that….
Thanks! It was pretty cool. Definitely not as cool as flying over mountains in New Zealand (I’ve done that in a tiny plane, too), but Ohio is beautiful in its own kind of way.
And no, this wasn’t the video I was fighting with iMovie over (my Alaska video was the one that gave me trouble http://wp.me/pNLpz-nR ).This one cooperated just fine!
Great photos. They make me miss my home of Iowa – probably as flat as eastern Ohio!
Thanks, Matt. It was a good day for taking photos up there. I’ve never been to Iowa, but I’ve heard it’s also very flat. So I’m sure this looks familiar!
yes THAT is unbelievably flat, well I thought NYC wasn’t flat everybody kept saying it was and for the most part it is (although I can feel a slight change in slopes).
But that’s not what piques my interest, the farmlands are all square, sure I’ve seen lots of farmland from the air (I used to do aerial SAR training) they’d be long and narrow, patchy, jagged shapes, etc heh that’s what I get for living out west.
small airplane rides are a lot of fun
Ohio gets a little less flat the further south you go, but yeah, for the most part there’s not much change! The farmland does kind of look like a patchwork quilt from the air though doesn’t it?